I hear you and I agree. I had several neighbors and friends move away. One neighbor,who I was friends with, died after getting the 2nd Vax. He was at my home on Valentines last year one month before he died suddenly.
I'm glad you're happy where you're at. I've been trying to move for over a year to Texas to get away from California. I was supposed to go look at houses this past week. But, my daughter's dad dissappeared. I'm not with him. He's retiring as a Dr and wants to buy me out. Anyway, his phone was making a weird sound for over a week and now it's dead. I keep thinking he left the country though he said he went camping which is unlike him. Consequently, I'm worried now. Hoping his phone turns back on soon so I can fly out took at houses in SE or NE Texas. I need the peace you've found.
And it would be better if we could all get along. Especially considering you said you agree with him on 99 percent of issues. It would be great if you could make amends.
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Hire a private eye. Most are ex-cops, and have quick access to info civilians don't. For a few hundred bucks, you could find out where he is in short order.
I live on the Emerald Coast of the FL Panhandle, between Destin and PCB. Plenty of work, and the people are the nicest you will find anywhere. Housing prices are booming cuz so many are moving here. No comparison to the rest of FL, which I loathe.
I'm going to give it some more time because I hate drama. Just hoping nothing bad happened if he did go camping. What seems weird is the phone is off for everyone so he's not just silencing me. Anyway, hoping all is OK. Maybe I'm stressing over nothing. I hope.
As far as Florida, I have family there and used to live in Boca Raton years ago. It's not my favorite place. I hate superficial people. However, like you said, some places are probably better than others.
One consideration is homeschool laws. Texas has better homeschool laws than Florida. If we find a place in Texas, if my daughter's dad returns, I'm looking somewhere near the Louisiana border. So, getting to the tip of Florida, the pan handle, won't be that far at least. Maybe when daughter's out of school, we'll go further SE, maybe Florida again. She wants me to move their after visiting my brother there recently. He's not far from St. Augustin.
I lived for a few months in Hollywood/Ft Lauderdale back in 2006, and hated it. Hated South Florida period, swore I'd never go back to FL. But this area is nothing like the rest, it's called 'South Alabama' cuz people are just so nice to each other. After 20 years of Hawaii, where people are not very friendly, it took some getting used to. Great beach/boating/fishing culture here, great roads, no litter or graffiti, etc etc.
--your dude might be camping with some sleazy skank, and have his phone turned to call forwarding, to ANOTHER phone, or a VOIP, and is ducking your caller ID number. There are websites that find people, costs 30-40 bucks. The free ones suck.
-kudos for homeschooling, keep your impressionable child out of government indoctrination centers.
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